Oracle As a Service (Line56)

COCC taps Oracle to extend e-business infrastructure and applications to small and medium-sized banks

Murdoch Will Earn A Payday From MySpace (Forbes)

NEW YORK - One of my favorite sites on the Internet is Amazon.com's little-known Alexa, a traffic-ranking site that finds out its data from a browser toolbar. This toolbar links up similar sites of interest for the user so if you went to, for example, “a pet site,” it would give you links to other popular pet sites as indicated by the behavior of other Alexa users.

Release Dates for Office 2007 Determine New Version Rights (Gartner)

Now that Microsoft has confirmed the release dates for Office 2007, Software Assurance customers should check their agreement end dates to see if they will receive rights to it.

Cool Vendors Heat Up IT Markets (Gartner)

More than 140 little-known but exciting companies offer big possibilities for the future of IT. Organizations, technology providers and investors should become familiar with these cool vendors and their offerings.

Cool Vendors in Emerging Technologies, 2006 (Gartner)

	We examine two sets of related technologies: applications that tie to massively scalable computing resources, and the hardware and software technologies that can cost-effectively deliver those resources. We also identify two breakthrough vendors with portable power solutions. Cool vendors: MotionPoint FYI
	Rackable Systems
	SprayCool
	Parallels
	Invirtus
	Transitive
	Ageia
	UltraCell
	Zinc Matrix Power

KM Blog (Line56)

Your weekly look at books, links, and questions from the world of knowledge management

Beatles take Apple to court over iPod dispute (FT)

The long-running legal tussle between The Beatles' company, Apple Corp, and technology giant Apple Computer returned to London's High Court 15:34 | Read

FileNet to showcase its enterprise content and process management solutions at FT Summit in Dubai (AME Info)

FileNet Corporation, the leading provider of Enterprise Content and Business Process Management solutions, has announced its participation in the upcoming Financial Technological (FT) Summit & Exhibition 2006, which will be held at the JW Marriot Hotel, Dubai, from April 2-4.

FatWire Software Recognized as Sole Leader in Persuasive Content-Centric Applications by Independent Research Firm (FatWire US)

Report cites FatWire's strength in Web Content Management, reporting and analytics, and multichannel content delivery

Mineola, NY - March 28, 2006 -- FatWire Software, a leading provider of content management solutions for deploying Web sites and content-centric applications, announced that it has been ranked by Forrester Research as the sole Leader in persuasive content-centric applications in its Forrester Wave: Content-Centric Applications report. The key findings of this report align with FatWire's strategy to enable enterprises to put content to work by delivering highly targeted and persuasive experiences to customers, partners, and employees.

User trends drove Microsoft to Windows Live, exec says (InfoWorld)

Microsoft has woken up to the fact that advertising is a major force, exec says

Customers' changing expectations are behind Microsoft's (Profile, Products, Articles) decision to offer some of its applications over the Web in the form of free services supported by advertising, a company executive said Monday. The change in course led to last week's management shakeup, he said.

Microsoft: Biz Apps on Track (Red Herring)

Software giant says its business products are on schedule after announcing delays in consumer products.

Microsoft Bloggers Post Gripes (Red Herring)

Postings on company blog reveal low morale over Vista delay.

Joint Venture Riverdeep and Microsoft (Riverdeep)

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and Orlando, Fla., March 23, 2006 - Improving academic achievement is the key objective behind a unique relationship between Riverdeep and Microsoft, Riverdeep announced today at the Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC) in Orlando.

IBM Expands Its Modeling Suite in Database Design Arena (Gartner)

In releasing its new strategic data modeling and database design tool, Rational Data Architect, IBM takes on leading database design tool vendors. IBM customers should consider acquiring RDA now.

Survey: Vista and Office 2007--What Are Your Plans? (AMR)

Microsoft plans on releasing its long-awaited Vista operating system later this year, as well as an upgrade to its Office productivity suite. The new products claim enhanced search, collaboration, and security, but how important are these new features to your organization? Has your IT department started planning for these events? What would motivate your company to make these upgrades?

The week in technology: Vista now further off (FT)

Microsoft sent shock waves through technology equity markets this week after it delayed the release of Vista - its next generation operating system - until early next year because of engineering problems.

Microsoft delays new Office to January (FT)

Microsoft on Friday announced the new version of its Office software suite would be delayed until next year for consumers, appearing in January to coincide with the postponed launch of its Vista operating system.

Gates Pushes Office as Dev Platform (cbronline)

Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates this week pitched the virtues of Office 2007 and its server-side counterpart Sharepoint 2007 as platforms that can be extended and built upon by developers, speaking at a company conference in Redmond, Washington.

Microsoft's 'People-Ready' Campaign Offers New Opportunity (Gartner)

The People-Ready campaign is a reasonable differentiating strategy. However, as presented, People-Ready is a marketing program for Microsoft's product launches rather than a compelling vision for the future.

Understanding Google: Exclusive look at a JupiterResearch report (ZDNet)

JupiterResearch recently released a Concept Report entitled Understanding Google. Subtitle: Competing and Partnering with the Most Influential Company Online. It costs $750 to purchase this report, so I asked Jupiter's Michael Gartenberg if I could get it for free and blog about it - as I did almost 1 year ago with their report on RSS Readers. Happily Michael agreed and so I've been mulling over the Understanding Google report for the past few days.